Try these different ways to color easter eggs at home, including learning how to color Easter eggs without food coloring, dyeing eggs with natural colors from beets and other fruits and vegetable dyes, how to dye eggs bright red, and even how to make colored deviled eggs, plus other Easter egg coloring tips and ideas!
Different Ways To Color Easter Eggs At Home And Dye Eggs For Kids Activities
These are my favorite ways for Easter egg coloring at home — from the old school egg dye to making natural dye for Easter eggs using different foods.
I also included some additional tips and tricks (like why do you do with leftover Easter egg dye?) and other fun things at the bottom of the post (after this section). Don’t miss those!
Coloring Eggs With Food Coloring
Dyeing eggs with food coloring is the old-school, traditional way of coloring Easter eggs. It’s a really simple egg coloring process and only takes a few ingredients.
To Dye Eggs With Food Coloring, You’ll Need:
- Hard boiled eggs (keep the egg carton for drying)
- Boiling water for each color
- White distilled vinegar for each color
- Food coloring (colors of choice)
This is a really easy dye method for coloring Easter eggs at home (and the method I remember using as a kid!).
EGG DYEING TIP: This method can stain fingers and clothes, so be sure you protect anything (including the table and rug) that you don’t want the potential of getting dye on and staining.
Get The Full Tips And Tricks For The Food Coloring Method For DIY Easter Egg Dye
How To Dye Easter Eggs With Natural Colors
If you’re wondering what is a unique way to dye Easter eggs, try coloring eggs without food coloring!
Using fruits and vegetables to create a natural egg dye is one of my favorite ways to dye Easter eggs!
To Dye Easter Eggs With Spices, Fruits, And Vegetables (Make Natural Egg Coloring), You’ll Need:
- Water
- Food items for natural dye (like spices, fruits, vegetables)
- White vinegar
- Boiled eggs, at room temperature (brown eggs or white eggs)
EXAMPLE DYES FOR EGGS COLOR GUIDE (Egg Color Mixing Chart):
- Red, pink, or lavender dye: red onion skins or raspberries
- Orange (white eggs) or rust red (brown eggs): yellow onion skins
- Yellow: Turmeric spice
- Blue (white eggs) and green (brown eggs): purple cabbage (also blueberries)
- Pink (white eggs) or darker pink/maroon/red (brown eggs): beets or beet juice
- Green: spinach
- *see full list of nature egg dye ideas on printable craft instructions
Get The Full Guide On How To Make Natural Egg Dye For Easter
EGG DYE TIP: If you’re wondering how to dye Easter eggs yellow without food coloring, turmeric is the key!
How To Color Bright Red Eggs For Easter
If you’ve ever tried to get a bright red Easter egg color, you know it can be tricky. They mostly turn out as pink hue eggs or a red colored egg that never quite achieves that deep red color.
After lots of testing and time trying, here’s how I achieved that vibrant red color on Easter eggs.
You can dye eggs red naturally using beets (they will be a more muted red, but still pretty!) or you can make a deep red with food coloring and time (including turning the eggs in the dye to get an even red color).
Did you know: red Easter eggs are often made for religious reasons or cultural reasons (including games) for the Easter season!
More Helpful Egg Dyeing Tips For Easter Eggs
Easy Peel Boiled Eggs
If you’re going to eat your Easter eggs after coloring them (or use them for this delicious egg salad recipe), you’ll definitely want to use my favorite method for boiling eggs to make them peel easily!
EASTER EGG TIP: Did you know that fresh eggs will peel easier? If you can, try to use the freshest eggs you can get!
To Make Easy To Peel Boiled Eggs, You’ll Need:
- Fresh eggs
- Water
- Ice
Get The Printable Recipe Card For Easy Boiled Eggs
How To Make Colored Deviled Eggs
Did you know that you can also color the whites of eggs? These make great colored deviled eggs for Easter brunch, lunch, or dinner!
To Make Dyed Egg Whites For Colored Devil Eggs, You’ll Need:
- Hard-boiled eggs
- Mustard
- Pickle relish
- Mayonnaise
- Salt
- Pepper
- Cold water
- Food coloring
Learn How To Make Dyed Deviled Eggs
What To Do With Leftover Egg Dye
When you’re finished coloring your Easter eggs, don’t throw out that leftover dye from eggs! There are so many fun things you can do with Easter egg dye leftover:
What can I do with leftover Easter egg dye?
- Paint with leftover egg colors
- Dye yarn or cloth with egg food colors
- Make colorful sensory rice
- Use leftover dye for science experiments
- Tie dye with leftover dye
- Make an Easter egg volcano
- Use dye for sensory bin items
- Use leftover Easter coloring to make pasta jewelry
- Create sensory bottles with the leftover egg coloring
- Color Play-Do or color slime with Easter egg dye
GET THE FULL LIST OF IDEAS FOR LEFTOVER EASTER EGG DYE
SEE THE FULL EASTER GUIDE FOR FUN EASTER GAMES, EASTER RECIPES, AND FUN EASTER FAMILY ACTIVITIES
NOTE: The History Channel has some fun Easter traditions if you want to learn more about them.
Happy Easter!
I hope you have fun with these different ways to color easter eggs at home!
